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Hey Teams / SharePoint Team Product Owner,
I don’t think this UI is clear to users. I just did a quick poll and people that use this UI did not know about the 3 dots “…” (see red arrow)
Please change to a 3rd button that says “Manage” or “Manage Access”
It then brings open this …
Say you add user to a group… you should be able to see this change in the Azure AD Audit logs.
The Audit log details work great for users. For example, when you make a change to a user in AD and sync with Azure AD (using AAD Connect), you get great visibility of what was changed.
Sadly you can’t see who changed it.
When you make a change to a distribution group in AD (e.g. add a new member) and sync, there are no details at all
Suggestion: Please add the details of who changed what for both users and distribution groups in the Audit logs.
When filling in a form the user icon (aka Account Name) on the top right is missing.
It would be awesome if the Forms questionnaire showed who was signed in. They could copy the Forms responses which is really clear. So it would be awesome if they had the same green bar below:
There is inconsistency in the Person menus…
In this case the Office | Person menu should show ”Microsoft 365 E3”
And link off to https://portal.office.com/account/?ref=MeControl
Teams search is super important, and I hope this one is on Microsoft’s backlog.
I expect Teams search and SharePoint search to have consistent results. Do others?
Not finding stuff you have permissions too is super frustrating. So this one has always confused me…. Do you consider it a bug?
Watch this one:
I think Jean did a great explanation of the permissions problem.
This is really weird behaviour – fire up Fiddler and you can see what Teams is doing in the background.
Turns out that when you search in Teams before it shows you what you have access to, it weirdly adds a refining query to only show documents from a list of every group you are a member of…
When I remove that refining query, it works as expected:
So I would say this appears to be a deliberate decision rather than a bug, though I think it is important to be able to turn it off if you want to find stuff using Team’s search 😂
In fact I would turn it off by default, so it is consistent with SharePoint Search
See the below text from our document on how to set up the security ourselves
Whenever you create a Site Collection, two O365 groups get created (xxx-Owners and xxx-Members). For retro-compatibility, these O365 groups are automatically added to the SharePoint groups at creation time.
(Note for SharePoint gurus: O365-xxx-Members is mapped to SharePoint-xxx-members, but O365-xxx-Owners is mapped to… Site Collection Administrators! Crazy.)
SharePoint membership grants access to SharePoint resources, while access to Teams features (Channels, tabs, apps) is controlled directly via O365 groups.
The problem with this model is we cannot add AD (Active Directory) groups (or even O365 groups) within O365 groups (no nesting allowed). So, if we want to give access to two different sites to the same people (say SSWDevelopers), we must add ALL MEMBERS manually on EACH generated O365 group. That is ridiculous, and hard to maintain long term.
Dear Microsoft Forms Product Owner,
When looking at the feedback from my forms surveys, I prefer Bar Charts over Pies. Does anyone like Pies? – I find them less readable.
Suggestion: I would like to go to Tools | Options and set my preference
Question: I think I have noticed that Forms show Bars when there are 6 or more options. Right?
If so, I guess I should always make sure I have 6 options 😊 😊
VS
That is an odd decision. I was just talking to a person form New Zealand who said:
“we actually have a rule to never use a pie chart :) The only time they’re somewhat useful is if you are comparing 2 things. Anything more and it’s not really readable”
Please fix it or give us an option to allow us to fix it.
Add a trigger in Power Automate when a Team’s name has changed.
E.g. I want to create a Flow to send a email notification to the manager when a Team’s name has changed.
See the below screenshot – this is the default on the lists app. It shows all lists that I have permissions for and have added as a favourite list. Although it says ‘Home’ it shows not only lists in the ‘Home’ site but also any other lists that I have access to. These lists are not in the ‘Home’ site but are in other sites.
If I don’t know what the name of the list is that I am looking for how do I find it?
It would be better if I could see the hub-site navigation from the normal SharePoint site. That way I could just navigate to the SysAdmins site and see the lists in that site, or the Designers and see those lists. That would give more context.
In Teams when in video chat with only 1 other person and click Share Content | (there is no Whiteboard app)
When I add someone else to the call I can see the whiteboard app.
This is weird and wastes a lot of time debugging why this feature comes and goes. The button should always be there and if Microsoft don’t want to enable it for 2 people for some reason pop a message that says “Whiteboard is for 3 or more users”.